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Dieppe

Impression: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
(1949.5.265)
Number: 251
Date: 1885
Medium: etching and drypoint
Size: 51 x 83 mm
Signed: butterfly at lower left
Inscribed: no
Set/Publication: no
No. of States: 2
Known impressions: 5
Catalogues: K.246; M.244; W.202
Impressions taken from this plate  (5)

TECHNIQUE

Lightly etched impressions of figures on a nearly empty beach, drawn with a minimum of outline and almost no shading, with minimal drypoint additions in the second state.

PRINTING

Impressions of this rare etching were printed in black ink on ivory (Graphic with a link to impression #K2460102) or off-white (Graphic with a link to impression #K2460104) laid paper with even, light tone. They were trimmed to the platemark and signed with a butterfly and 'imp' to show that Whistler had printed them.